{"id":73440,"date":"2019-10-31T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73440"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:39:34","slug":"friday-actor-john-witherspoon-dies-aged-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/friday-actor-john-witherspoon-dies-aged-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday actor John Witherspoon dies aged 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Actor John Witherspoon, who starred alongside rapper Ice Cube in the hit Friday comedy movie franchise, died on Tuesday at the age of 77, his family said. \u201cWe love you POPS always and forever,\u201d his family said on his Twitter account, referring to another of his roles John \u2018Pops\u2019 Williams on the long-running sitcom The Wayans Bros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was a Legend in the entertainment industry, and a father figure to all who watched him over the years,\u201d the posting added. Celebrities including Chance The Rapper, actor Jack\u00e9e Harry and director Judd Apatow went online to pay tribute to the Detroit, Michigan-born actor and comedian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy dad, my grandpa, my comedic inspiration! I love you Spoons! Rest In Paradise, King,\u201d Academy Award-winning actor Regina King tweeted. Witherspoon was best known for his recurring role as Ice Cube\u2019s father in the comedy trilogy Friday, Next Friday and Friday After Next movies. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor John Witherspoon, who starred alongside rapper Ice Cube in the hit Friday comedy movie franchise, died on Tuesday at the age of 77, his family said. \u201cWe love you POPS always and forever,\u201d his family said on his Twitter account, referring to another of his roles John \u2018Pops\u2019 Williams on the long-running sitcom The [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73442,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73440\/revisions\/73442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}